Author: Joaquin Selva
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Five Great Gardening Podcasts
Whether you’re working in your garden or out in the city and thinking about your garden, it’s always nice to have some tried and true podcasts to fall back on. Here are five great podcasts about botany/gardening/horticulture/plants that I’ve found myself gravitating to, listed in alphabetical order. Black in the Garden Black in the Garden…
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Make an Herb Spiral for about $100
The other day, I read this post about making an herb spiral. While I would love to have an herb spiral like that just dropped into my backyard out of the air, I just know I would never get around to actually building something like that, even if I did get around to buying all…
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Use a Reel Mower for Eco-Friendly Exercise
It’s becoming increasingly clear that perfectly manicured lawns are not the best thing for the environment. Aside from the constant watering they need and the fact that they don’t provide any nutritional benefits to local wildlife, a lot of people use gas-powered mowers as part of their weekly routine. There are a lot of electric…
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Edible Plants to Grow Indoors or on a Small Balcony
I’m lucky enough to have pretty decent yard space (at least for living smack dab in the middle of the city), but I could have easily grown all five of these plants at the same time on the small attached balcony in the apartment I used to live in, and the dwarf tomato plants could…